Law Forum Mulls Uniform Divorce Regulation Today

"Uniform Divorce Law" will go under discussion at a Law School Forum at 4:15 p.m, today in the Langdoll Hall Courtroom. The sole speaker will be Reginald Hober Smith '10.

Smith, who was Chairman of President Truman's Conference on American Family Life, will discuss his own plans for changing the divorce laws of the country. He wants each state to accept his proposals on its own, rather than have the federal government pass a universal divorce law.

States Control

In this way the States will keep control over the divorce proceedings as at present, but they will all have one law. Decentralization of the courts will speed up the divorce actions and keep them on a more personal level.

The state-run courts will, according to Smith, be of a special domestic-relations variety, with a judge to give the final decision. They will be equipped with doctors and psychiatrists, and divorces will not be granted unless absolutely necessary.

The forum will be free and open to the public.